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Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Classic Reprint)
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Classic Reprint Author:Marcus Aurelius courage to encounter the fiercest boars. At -.he same time. he was kept from the extravagancies of his day. The great excitement in Rome was the strife of the Factions, as they were called, in the circus. The racing drivers used -.o adopt one of four colours-red. blue, white, or green-and their partisans showed an eagerness in supporting them wh... more »ich nothing could surpass. Riot and corruption went in the train of the racing chariots ; and from all these things Marcus held severely aloof- In 140 Marcus was raised to the consulship, and in 145 his betrothal was consummated by marriage. Two years later Kaus-ina brought him a daughter; and soon after the tribunate and other imperial honours were conferred upon him. Antoninus Pius died in 161, and Marcus assumed the imperial state. He at once associated with himself I.. Ceionius Commodus, whom Antoninus had adopted as a younger son at the same time with Marcus, giving him the name of Lucius Aurclius Verus. Henceforth the two are colleagues
Table of Contents
Introduction ix; First Book i; Second Book 12; Third Book 18; Fourth Book 27; Fifth Book 42; Sixth Book 57; Seventh Book 72; Eighth Book SS; Ninth Book 104; Tenth Book 119; Eleventh Book 136; Twelfth Book 148; Appendix 159; NOTES 175; Glossary 179
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